Background Check?

Question

My friend's brother has been looking for job for a while and he has gone for lots of interview, however, he did not get any of them. The interviewers usually said that they are going to do a background check and let him know. My friend's brother thinks that he doesn't get the job because of the background check. The fact of the matter is that a while ago a misdemeanor case was filed against him, which was later DISMISSED/DISPOSED. Although he wasn't convicted, will this show up in background check ? Will it matter ?

Answer 1

Good jobs are very competitive, so it is normal to go on a lot of interviews and not get the job. It also depends on his skills, experience, resume, self-presentation, good-work history, references, attitude, and interest. For example, did he research the company before his interview so that he was knowledgeable and could ask intelligent and appropriate questions? Did he get a book and practice answering interview questions? Does he have a gap in his work history? Are there any misspelled words on his resume?

Regarding a background check:

Yes, the misdemeanor case will probably show up if the company does a criminal background check in the same courthouse (city) in which the case happened. Your friend should prepare an honest explanation that shows him in the best light, and he should be ready to present verbally and in writing, if it ever comes up in an interview. On the good side, the case was dismissed, so he is innocent.

You can do a background check yourself, to see what information is shows up.
If you are willing to do some research yourself, you can perform a background check on someone for free. Your results will depend on the details:
What information do you want?
How much research are you willing to do?
How fast do you want it?

Do-it-Yourself Free Background Check Details

a) One Detail is finding out your subject-persons lifetime travel history. He could have committed a crime anywhere he has ever been.

b) 2nd Detail is that you could miss important records if you miss any of the locations that your subject-person has been to.

c) 3rd Detail is the amount of work you must do to check every courthouse in those locations.

d) 4th Detail is cost. If the courthouse has digitized their records and published them on a website, then you can often review them for free. But if you must travel to the courthouse, that requires your time and travel costs. Finally, if you want a copy of the record, some courthouses provide free copies and some courthouses charge up to $1 per page.

e) So a do-it-yourself background check may cost you a significant amount of money if you want to perform a complete background check.

Criminal Background Check:

Criminal records are kept by the Clerk of Courts in each courthouse. We know there are 50 states, 3000 counties, and about 30,000 cities, towns, or townships in the United States. Every city, town, county, state, and the federal government may their own courthouses. That is a lot of courthouses, and most of them do not share their information. However, you are allowed to review it because , it is all public information.
If you know where the subject person has lived and traveled, then you know which courthouse records to check.

Other Records:

You will probably want to check out some other records on you subject-person.

What do you want to know about?

Bankruptcies
Civil law suits
Tax liens
Corporate ownership
Property ownership
Professional licenses
Associates and Business Partners
Marriages and Divorces

Here, you have the same issues that you had with the Criminal Records. All of that information is public, and you can review it, but the information is not all in one place. You have to find out where it is, and you may have to go there.

Information Aggregators

Some companies on the Internet specialize in collecting all of this public information, putting it in their database, and making it available for instant access. For example, Illinois Youth Soccer (www.iysa.org) has a Risk Management publication that refers to BackgroundSearch.com .
http://backgroundsearch.com

You can review some background check for free and get the results immediately on the internet.

How to Do-It-Yourself Background Check for Free:
http://backgroundsearch.com/Free-Search-Resources/FAQ/free-background-check.html

Step #1 – At an information aggregator, like BackgroundSearch.com , you can put in your subject-person’s name and find every city that he lived-in. That website provides this information for free. You can enter as many names as you like. Now you know which courthouse records to review.

Step #2 – At BackgroundSearch.com, you can find a list of the courthouses and Criminal Record Offices of every city, county, and state in the USA, along with their website (as reported to the U.S. government).

Step #3.- Review the public records at the courthouse website, or go to the courthouse (if they do not have a website).

Step #4 – Back at BackgroundSearch.com , you can find the Record Offices for Vital Records (Marriage, Divorce, Births, Deaths). Repeat step #3 for Vital Records and any other type of records that you need.

Sex Offenders:

You can find a list of convicted sex offenders, which is kept by the U.S. Government, here: http://www.nsopr.gov/

Purchasing a Background Check:

If you want to get a complete report, instantly, you can purchase a comprehensive background check from BackgroundSearch.com (or other information aggregators). The companies have to cover their costs to gather all of the public information, put it in a database, keep it up to date every day about everyone, and make it available to you on the internet for instant access. So, every company (without exception) has to charge you something for a complete background check.

Answer 2

possibly.... the same thing happened to me, my case was also dismissed but it was showing up on my background checks too, and i wasn't getting jobs. (i found out it was showing because one job hired me THEN did the background check, then they terminated my employment)... how old is your brother? thing twist is that i was a juvenile at the time, and the bci was supposed to exsponge my record at 18 but didn't! if his incident was when he was a minor you can get it erased from your record. if he's older then maybe you can go to the court and ask them for help, they might be able to do something like that, especially since the case was dismissed.

Answer 3

If they ask on the application, he should tell the truth because misdemeanors aren't a big deal unless you lie about them. I have a pretty long criminal record and I've passed a few background checks in my day.

Answer 4

First, sure. Age would be checked. 2d, age discrimination can't happen except the state's hard artwork regulation facilitates employment on the particular age in question. baby hard artwork regulations have been upheld as a valid thank you to guard the extra youthful, much less experienced, and harmless young little ones from exploitation by ability of the older, wiser, and much less scrupulous adults. they're an exception to the theory of age discrimination. extra probably, I (at age 60) could have a lawsuit obtainable if my boss fired me because of the fact they needed somebody youthful. which would be age discrimination.

Answer 5

the background a company runs will show very little. you can runa free or pay site and it will show you very little. the only place to get a thorough back ground investigation is thru a police department.even the police have to have permission to run the background.
----retired texas deputy sheriff----

Answer 6

There's also gaps in employment.